Five-Year Strategic Plan

The intersection between business and technology, once a stoplight where two streets met, has widened to become a ramp linking major highways. The Howe School of Technology Management has long been a skilled navigator, providing students with a rigorous, practical education that provides the right blend of disciplines to train future leaders in finance, data analysis, information systems and project management.

In 2012, the Howe School of Technology Management launched an ambitious strategic plan to attract and train students seeking to develop the social and technical skills required to lead in a world of rapid change and pressing challenges.

The strategic plan is aimed at fulfilling its mission of being a business school with technology at its core that has a positive impact in its community and throughout the world. It is built around four strategic priorities: identity, impact, quality and engagement, and growth and diversity. Each of these pillars is designed to help the school realize its vision: To be a leading business school widely recognized for superior technology-focused and student-centric educational programs and research.

We're excited to share our vision for the future of our school with you. The highlights of our plan are presented below; for a complete version, please download a copy of our strategic plan.

An Elaboration of our Mission

Our Constituents:

We serve students, the academic community, government, industry, alumni and society as a whole.

We serve two main student constituencies at the graduate level: those with a technical background seeking management knowledge, and those with management background seeking technical knowledge. At the undergraduate level, we serve students who are interested in acquiring core business knowledge with a technical emphasis, as well as in developing specialized knowledge in a particular business domain.

We attract students from around the globe while maintaining a strong regional base of students, alumni, and corporate and government partners.

We provide undergraduate programs to educate future business leaders. We offer seven programs for students to help them gain expertise in a particular discipline while becoming proficient in the ways in which business and technology intersect in the workplace. Students can choose to major in Quantitative Finance, Business & Technology, Economics, Marketing, Finance, Information Systems and Management. We also offer business minors for all undergraduate students at Stevens.

All our programs emphasize the importance of team building, communicating, collaborating, analyzing and applying knowledge to practice.

Our Research Endeavors:

We perform research at the intersection of business and technology, and specifically focus on the following three areas: Creativity and Innovation, which considers idea generation, product development and process improvements; collaboration and networks, which aims to understand the changing nature of teams, organizations, crowds and markets; and decision analytics and Big Data, which focuses on building collective intelligence.

Our Service and Outreach:

We serve the school, the university, and surrounding community through our research, teaching and other outreach activities. We continuously assess and improve our research and teaching with the help of outside advisors drawn from industry and government.

Identity

The Howe School will continue to embrace the characteristics that set it apart from competitors: its technology focus, its place at the forefront of analytics, the relevance and practicality of its teachings, and its location near New York’s employment centers.

To that end, the school will develop and evolve programs at the undergraduate and graduate level that reflect the needs of the corporate community and prepare students for leadership roles in industry. It also will attract world-class faculty to keep Howe at the front of the most critical areas in the management of technology. It will continue to leverage world-class facilities like the Hanlon Financial Systems Lab to conduct leading research and attract future generations of top-tier students.

Impact

The Howe School of Technology Management will become a recognizable asset to the business community by becoming a leader in research and by preparing graduates who will effect positive change in industry and government.

The school has put an emphasis on measuring its research impact and leading in critical areas, including analytics and Big Data. It has launched a quarterly newsletter to keep stakeholders informed about news of the school, and has focused on getting more research published in top journals. It is working to develop relationships within Stevens, and with schools and companies worldwide.

Quality and Engagement

By attracting the best and most motivated students and faculty, the Howe School of Technology Management will produce better research, more accomplished graduates and stronger ties to industry.

The Howe School of Technology Management is increasing the number of tenure and tenure-track faculty as it decreases the amount of adjuncts in its classrooms. It is developing incentives for top teaching and research, and hopes to invite top faculty to take sabbaticals at Stevens — and to develop at least one endowed chair as Howe forges stronger relationships with other schools.

The school’s student-centric focus will continue to be emphasized through its unique support center, and through curricula reviews that ensure the best methods, practices and technology are employed in the classroom. Through advisory boards and networking activities, the school will better engage alumni and leverage their talents to improve its reputation. It will expand the Howe School Alliance for Technology Management, and build and develop relationships with employer and cohort companies.

Growth and Diversity

The Howe School of Technology Management is committed to expanding its impact by growing its student body and faculty. The school will use its larger size to deepen the quality of its research and forge stronger links to industry.

By 2017, the school will double its undergraduate enrollment, grow the graduate student population to 1,100, increase the diversity of the graduate student body, and launch additional business majors and graduate programs to meet the changing needs of industry. It also will leverage its improved corporate connections to increase the number of cohort degree and certificate programs.